Listen Up!

Wow. I heard a snippet on NPR Saturday morning about a singer named "Danielia Cotton".

Question - does it make me sound more intelligent when I said I had listened to NPR? Just wondering....

Anyhow, I was so impressed with her singing that I rushed out to Amazon and ordered her new CD - "Rare Child". I just received it today and have listened to almost all of it. I had to interrupt myself to rush over here and blog about it!!

Peeps, do yourself a favor and listen to "Testify" and "Rare Child". They are AMAZING.

I have no idea where this woman came from, where's she's been, or anything about her. I just heard a little bit of "Let it Ride" last Saturday and I was hooked.

She is HIGHLY recommended! 5 stars and a huge "WOO HOO"....

Eyes under my bags

You know, some people really get upset about bags under their eyes. I always think they just need more sleep. I'm not sure I've ever thought "OMG - Look at those BAGS! Would you just LOOK at those bags?" If someone had perpetuation state of bags-under-the-eyes-itis, I'd just probably advise them to get more sleep and perhaps use some sliced cucumbers to refresh the eyes. Course, you run the risk of dreaming about Tiny Tim singing "Tip Toe thru the Salad, thru the carrots, we'll stroll along...", but you would might have less bagginess the next morning.

I'd be more concerned with eyes under my bags. Especially if my bags were in the closet. If I opened the door to get one, and I saw eyes, I'd be worried.

Getting back to bags under the eyes, that could be useful. If they were zip-lock bags, you could store your tears and then when your eyes got dry, you could just cut the corner off and use REAL tears - not artificial ones. Much healthier, don't you think?

You could also save all of the eyelashes you shed and then sell them to people who make fake eyelashes. Just think - your eyelash could be on Britney someday!

Sunday Comics

It's not Sunday, but this is a great strip from yesterday: (Hope this link works)

http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20080525.html

I love this cartoon. It's amazingly funny. This comes close to the story arc about Pig's enemy, the sea anemone. That was the best thing I think I've ever read.

SO i just went to Amazon.com to look and see if there are any "Pearls Before Swine" books for their Kindle Reader (I have one - thanks Kev!), and they have a prophecy book for $240 for sale. In looking at the reviews, it looks like one guy thought this was the comic strip and was warning people that it isn't...........for $240, I'd expect the cartoonist to draw me my own book with my cats in it!!

I just ordered the book with a few of the anemone strips in them. I'm sure it is copywrited material so when I get it, I'll just post the highlights.

Enjoy. And read Pearls daily. It's good for your health!

By the way....

Three months until my Birthday!!! I like SPARKLY THINGS.

Zania Fever

I'm listening to "Young Frankenstein" - the musical - on Sirius. I'm at the "Transylvania Mania" song right now. I've never heard this before. Seen the movie, didn't know there was a play. Makes me want to join a chorus line somewhere.... At the very least, I may have to see what's available CD-wise for this. How can you get better than this? Broadway music...gotta love it...(I'm a woman so I can say that without fear)

The other writing workshop we were going to go to was cancelled. The author of "God of War" was going to present it. The topic was "setting". That's something I have a hard time with. I can do conversations just fine, but I hate writing narrative. But, it was cancelled so I'll just have to struggle with this some more.

We bought an ice tea maker. This is like my 5th one in my lifetime. This one I finally noticed that they tell you up-front that the pitcher is not dishwasher-safe. You'd think I would have learned after the first time I disfigured one. I kept forgetting to wash by hand. So anyway, this one is pretty cool. The maker uses either bags or loose tea and you put it in a basket INSIDE the tea maker! Whoa! It was such a pain putting the tea in that little basket over the pitcher. Now I get to put it in the maker. Out of sight is out of mind. Now I don't have to worry about it until the next time I make tea. Plus now the pitcher fits really neatly into the maker. You don't have to slide it next to it anymore.

The added benefit is that my Siamese cat, Kynan, loves to watch the water drip into the pitcher. Instant Cat Entertainment!

If there is anyone out there reading this, leave me a comment or two... would love feedback. But keep it positive and with extremely gratuitous complements. (In the words of the great Randy Jackson.... "just keepin' it real, dawg!"....)

History of Rock and Roll

The local radio station here is playing the history of rock and roll. It's some syndicated show, so guess it's pretty much on everywhere. Ray Charles is on at the moment.


So, my boss was on CNN and NBC today. It's been an interesting week for our company. We'll be okay. Just gotta fight the big guys for awhile.


Ah, one of my favorite songs..."You Send Me"... honest you do, honest you do, honest you do.

What? What? WHAT?

I love Dr. Who.

Actually, I love having Donna with the Doctah more. She's amazing and SO much better of a match for him than that Rose. Go Donna. Conquer the Universe. You know you wanna.

I really cannot believe I haven't written in this since January. How did that happen? Well, I've been super busy.

We went to a writing seminar on Saturday called "Writing while you breathe" or "Breathing while writing" or "Breathing and it's affect on your body", or something like that. We had to stand up and breathe and then shake and then pound on our legs. After that, we got to sit down and write while keeping one hand on our friend, Ms. Belly. Or Mr. Belly, depending on the seminar participant. It was a bit more involved than that, but honestly, I don't remember the sequence of events. I just remember wondering if Kevin was going to write and if he'd let me read what he'd written. He wrote a little and I have not read it. It looked more like his list of to-do items to me....heh....

I did write a lot. Once I finish it, I'll post it here. :) Of course, "a lot" is subjective. I wrote a lot for me especially after I didn't think I'd be able to write anything. Another participant wrote about 3 novels. She was constantly flipping pages.

I was on a roll at one point. Words were flying out of my pen and getting written down on the page - it was fun and fluid and real and exciting and it was "magical"...and then........the seminar leader said "Relax your jaw!"....and it stopped. My hand wanted to curl up into a fist and strike something, cause I just lost concentration. I never really did get it back no matter how much I breathed or how deeply.

The good news out of all this is that I am still breathing. Yes, 4 days after the seminar and still yet, I breathe.